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This E-ScienceTalk provides updates on project progress, upcoming briefings, and recent achievements in the field of e-science. Learn about the latest advancements in grid policy outreach, grid marketing, and digital library support.
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E-ScienceTalk PMB E-ScienceTalk PMB Meeting 9 8 October 2012 Telcon
Web stats WP2 PY2 Unique page views and visitors over the last quarter
WP1:Grid policy outreach • Progress • James Cook joined as an intern at QMUL in July-August, worked on marketing and materials • Full paper accepted for eChallenges, 17-19 October, presentation on 17th • Gridcasts held at EGI Technical Forum, Prague (September), GISELA-CHAIN Workshop, Mexico, XSEDE’12 • Briefing on Technology Transfer issued at the end of September • Next Briefing on Big Data for the end of December • MoUs signed with CRISP and Virtus
WP1:Grid policy outreach • Next steps • Briefings every 2 months in the final year • Compendium planned for the end of PY3 • 10th e-concertation meeting on 6/7 March at The Hotel – budget issue • Future topic ideas for briefings • International dimension of grids • eGovernment • Impact indicators - eNVENTORY • Digital Agenda for Europe / Horizon 2020 • eInfrastructure governance • Exascale/future computing • Costs of cloud, e-infrastructure
WP2: GridCafé, GridCast, GridGuide • Progress • e-ScienceTalk • Tracking downloads and shares of e-ScienceBriefings • e-ScienceCity / GridCafé • HPC Tower, Cloud Lounge and Volunteer Computing areas all live – adding news feeds • Communications area including multimedia, image bank, news, People bay area live soon • Some graphics still needed to be able to push the site properly – driven by the 3D version • Moved to individual URLs for each area, now indexed by Google • Good traffic to and from the Virtual World area • GridCast • GridCasts held at EGI TF 2012 Prague and GISELA-CHAIN. • GridGuide / RTM • Working on organising the panels more intuitively iegLite, PANDA, GEANT • New graphics ready for the data transfers panel • Now tracking heavy users of RTM – have approached them for feedback • Possibility that RTM will be added to a Science Museum exhibit on the LHC • Digital Library • Support for this ended May 2012 • Will be presented at the review to the EC
WP2: GridCafé, GridCast, GridGuide • Next steps • e-ScienceCity • New areas in order: networking and data garden • Need to trademark e-ScienceCity and e-ScienceIsland – URLs all purchased • Marketing plan: wikipedia, social media, iSGTW, internal linking, schools pack, conferences, videos • GridCafé • Need a handover date for the old and new versions of GridCafe– site must be functionally complete to do this so can be done once common areas complete • Cannot redirect to an external site from a CERN URL any more – dead links • GridCast • Need to have a presence at events outside the usual community to increase the audience and advertise products such as iSGTW. • Next events are eChallenges, EUDAT conference, SC12, CRISP 2nd conference, ISGC’13, EGI CF13 • Have lost access to CERN GridCast page – trying to set this up with CERN • GridGuide / RTM • All new sites now included in RTM • New beta version with Phedex data to be demo-ed at the review
Plan for GridGuide Next steps • Indexed/tagged content could be displayed through a map interface – similar to the EGI trainers and events map interface at http://www.egi.eu/user-support/ngi_support/ • Explore adding a mapping function to e-ScienceCity • Integration with RTM – include links to all 64 RTM sites in the GridGuide • Add any missing XSEDE, PRACE sites to bring total up to 75 • Shrink sites to skeletons with links back to original websites • Remove all out of date content • Redirect www.gridguide.org to new pages in e-ScienceCity
WP3: iSGTW • Progress • Miriam Boon left on 15 June, Vivian Chang left on 1 June • EU Editor Andrew Purcell started at CERN on 1 August • Recruitment underway with Indiana University starting in November 2012 • ASGC still committed to providing an Asia-Pacific editor, covering with existing staff for now • CG met with Maria Ramalha at ISC’12 PRACE workshop - new comms officer has started but not looking to get involved in the short term • Subscriptions hovering around 8200 but decrease due to defunct addresses doesn’t seem to have impacted so far • Continued good impact of social media policy – Twitter followers and Facebook fans continuing to increase, retweets by large accounts egCERN, NatureNewsis driving spikes of traffic to the website • iSGTW site and email now at QMUL – no major problems so far • Exploring also providing CMS support as a separate contract • Next iSGTW Advisory Boardon 14 November at SC’12, with Indiana reps • Agreed 3rdparty funds for website maintenance – 8K identified but no invoice from Xenomedia yet
WP3: iSGTW • Next steps / Issues • Freelancers identified for short term shortage, and possible on going support – but little billed so far • New name issue is still outstanding – to be reconsidered when the new US and EU editors are on board • Need to increase subscriber numbers as well as social media numbers – have crept up a bit • Ongoing funding is an issue
WP4:Management • Progress • Review is on 15 October, Brussels • One more e-Concertation meeting in March 2013, Brussels – insufficient budget and delegates cannot be charged • Weekly meetings continuing with the project team • Travel: CG will attend SC12 to meet with Tabor, the ISC’12 organisers and the iSGTW Advisory Board; iSGTW travel planned to end of project • Activities being implemented with CRISP – reports on website and social media delivered, video underway, media training dates being identified at DESY and ESRF. • SAGrid and REUNA agreements need to be pursued, as well as DiscovertheCosmos, BioMedBridges, DCH-RP, DASISH and ENVRI. • Leading a joint dissemination meeting at EUDAT conference with CRISP, BioMedBridges, ENVRI and DASISH. Media training for 20 delegates • Year 2 amendment session submitted and accepted
Project issues • WP1-WP4 • GridCast and GridCafe access issues at CERN • Lack of sites for GridGuide – end of project milestone a concern • Funding for iSGTW – editorial effort and web support • iSGTW subscriber numbers may not reach the milestone, especially with the removal of the defunct email addresses • New name for iSGTW and development costs – no funds available • High travel costs for all WPs – funding for 2 people for CRISP meetings • Protection of current and future e-ScienceTalk product names • Non reporting of effort by partners for Quarterly Reports and at year end
Deliverables and milestones tracking Complete In preparation Overdue
Y2 Effort Overall effort achieved in PY2 in PMs: per work package Under reporting of effort across nearly all partners! Timesheets must be filled in on time
PY2 Expenditure Overall costs in PY2 in Euros: per partner Under spent against plan for PY2 Costs at 79% against effort at 86%
Remaining Funds PY3 Overall costs in PY3 in Euros: per partner Remaining: PM 25-33 27% of project
Sustainability • CRISP – willing to pay for e-ScienceTalk team services post May 2013 (but will not fund core work) • Support from other ESFRI projects is unclear • Freelancers for iSGTW – ongoing contracts for content on EU side • US funding for the iSGTW editor is potentially for 5 years • No cost extension of e-ScienceTalk – underspending partners? • Horizon2020 – earliest date for call to open is 1 January 2014
DoW changes PY3 • Move underspent budget from Imperial to central budget for management travel • Move underspent budget to e-Concertation – 8-10K short • Move MS3 from PM26 to PM31